Question

I got a deprecated error in my php script

Deprecated: Function split() is deprecated in directory\filename on line 153

This is the error line

list($ns, $el) = split( ':', $element, 2);

How do I fix this? I’m running in PHP5.3.

Answer 1

split function has been DEPRECATED as of PHP 5.3.0. Relying on this feature is highly discouraged. You can use preg_split for example preg_split("/[\s,]+/", "hypertext language, programming"). Or you can use array explode ( string $delimiter , string $string [, int $limit ] ) for example

// Example 1
$pizza = "piece1 piece2 piece3 piece4 piece5 piece6";

$pieces = explode(" ", $pizza);

echo $pieces[0]; // piece1

echo $pieces[1]; // piece2

// Example 2
$data = "foo:*:1023:1000::/home/foo:/bin/sh";

list($user, $pass, $uid, $gid, $gecos, $home, $shell) = explode(":", $data);

echo $user; // foo
echo $pass; // *